Jay’s Must-Listens: The Step-by-Step Guide to Meditation ANYONE Can Do (Eliminate Anxiety & Rewire Your Nervous System)

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Aug 27, 2025

Vishen Lakhiani, Founder of Mindvalley and personal growth advocate, shares his insights on the transformative power of meditation. He discusses how meditation can rewire the nervous system, promote healing, and enhance creativity. Lakhiani emphasizes the importance of personalized meditation practices to foster emotional balance and resilience. Listeners are encouraged to embrace consistency and curiosity in their meditation journey, highlighting that every breath is a chance to reconnect and reset.

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INSIGHT

Meditation Changes Biology

Dr. Joe Dispenza shows meditation can measurably change brainwaves, gene expression, and metabolites.
These biological shifts suggest meditation can act like an internal pharmacy that supports healing.

ADVICE

Train Your Brain Beyond Analysis

Practice to slow brainwaves and get beyond the analytical mind to reprogram yourself.
Repetition and explanation make the process easier and more effective over time.

INSIGHT

Meditation Influences Disease Cells

Advanced meditators' blood reduced mitochondrial function in cancer cells in lab tests.
The host cites cases of dramatic recoveries, suggesting wide-ranging potential impacts.

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How do you normally calm yourself when you’re overwhelmed?

Have you ever tried meditation before?

Today, Jay brings you a diverse exploration of meditation with some of today’s most insightful minds: Dr. Joe Dispenza, Big Sean, Michael Acton Smith, Vishen Lakhiani, and Sam Harris. From science to music, entrepreneurship to spirituality, each guest reveals how meditation has shaped their lives, and how you can use it as a powerful tool for focus, healing, and inner transformation.

Together, they show us that meditation is far more than sitting in silence, it’s a pathway to healing, clarity, and growth. Whether it’s rewiring the nervous system, reprogramming the mind, or unlocking creativity and resilience, this conversation demonstrates the many ways meditation can ground you in the present and while also opening you to what’s possible.

Whether you’re just beginning or returning with new intention, this episode is an invitation to reconnect with yourself. These insights remind us the practice isn’t about getting it “right,” but about consistency, curiosity, and compassion for yourself.

In this episode, you'll learn:

How to Reprogram Your Mind Through Meditation

How to Turn Elevated Emotions Into Healing

How to Build a Daily Meditation Routine That Sticks

How to Heal Your Body by Training Your Mind

Meditation isn’t about where you begin, it’s about the choice to begin at all. Each breath is a chance to return, reset, and remember the calm already within you. Wherever you are, restless, curious, or seeking clarity, meditation offers a doorway inward.

With Love and Gratitude,

Jay Shetty.

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What We Discuss:

00:00 Intro

04:10 How Meditation Transforms Your Brain and Body

08:33 How Much Practice Do You Really Need?

14:39 There Is No Wrong Way to Meditate

18:30 How to Connect Deeply with Nature Through Meditation

22:17 Debunking the Biggest Myths About Meditation

24:21 What Is Active Meditation and How Does It Work?

28:45 Using Meditation to Elevate Your Everyday Life

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